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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:30pm PT
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 10, 2017 - 09:50pm PT
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Feb 11, 2017 - 12:26pm PT
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Beefin' up the truck again.
I've been assured the off road ride will now be smooooooth.
Really?
Susan
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 11, 2017 - 12:52pm PT
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DMT! Sorry to dissapoint, but the left-leaning power poles were in Jackson Hole WY this week. They were sorry too. Shut down the ski hill & the airport & a lot of things in between.
Here's a conservative shed & ore bin for you, in Nevada.
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perswig
climber
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Feb 11, 2017 - 01:21pm PT
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Ghost, dig the coloring of the hobo stove shot; made it my screensaver.
I haven't built one of those since survival school.
Dale
edit: Beautiful to turn on ST and find that this 0'dark.
Funny what you can do when you don't know you can't, eh? Thanks, David.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 11, 2017 - 07:12pm PT
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Ghost, dig the coloring of the hobo stove shot; made it my screensaver.
I haven't built one of those since survival school.
Thanks Dale. And this being the "every picture tells a story" thread, there is definitely a story behind that picture...
It was taken about 35 or 40 years ago. A couple of young guys, probably about 20 years old at the time, decided that they should try canoeing. I'd done a lot of wilderness whitewater guiding, and one of them (whom I climbed with a fair bit) asked me for some advice.
All these decades later, I have no idea what I told him. Probably nothing too important, but it must have psyched them up, because they decided to go on a "canoe trip."
Most kids, even if they'd had some outdoor adventure in the mountains, would probably have decided to paddle down a nearby river for a day or two. You know, get the hang of the whole canoeing thing, and, if it seemed cool, try something a bit more serious next summer.
Not Ryan and Randy. They found a canoe somewhere, tied it on to the roof of a car (probably borrowed from one of their parents), and drove a thousand miles north from Vancouver, left the car somewhere, and set off down the Nahanni River in the Yukon.
This was, at that time, a fairly adventurous undertaking. They were hardly the first to paddle the Nahanni, but it was still remote, and serious.
But that was only the beginning.
When the Nahanni dumped them into the Mackenzie, they turned north and paddled another 400 miles or so to the Mackenzie Delta, just shy of the Arctic Ocean. Here, they turned west and paddled up a tributary (maybe the Rat? I'm not sure) to the point where it originated.
No more water? No problem. They put the canoe on their shoulders and portaged. Not just a few hundred yards around a rapid, or from one paddleable spot to another, but over a f*#king mountain range. Yup. Over the continental divide and down the other side until they could unload the canoe into (I think) the Little Bell River. And down that to the Bell River. And down that to the Porcupine River. And down that to the Yukon River. and down that to...
...to, eventually, wherever it was they'd left their car.
This, their first canoe trip, was something on the order of 1,500 miles, with not just the usual river issues, but also the crossing of a mountain range.
Somewhere along the way, one of them took that picture, and Ryan gave it to me. So, I'm glad you liked it, and I hope this little story will give your screensaver a bit of meaning.
And, fwiw, a year later Ryan joined me on a trip to the mountains of Baffin Island. We did some fun climbing and skiing, and also had a local wildlife encounter, which you can read about here: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2727226&msg=2729094#msg2729094
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 11, 2017 - 07:17pm PT
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Sooo Bad Asss ^^^^
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 11, 2017 - 07:34pm PT
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Sooo Bad Asss ^^^^
No sh#t. If Ryan had ever bothered to take climbing seriously, he'd be one of the greatest ever. But, while he may not have been the greatest climber ever, he was the best climbing partner I've ever shared a rope with.
What does that mean? Well, to me, a great partner is one who is always willing to do more than his share of the dirty work. Whether that is washing the gloppy dishes in sub-freezing weather, or taking the lead when the going gets tough. A partner who never complains and always has an encouraging word for you.
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Saugy
Mountain climber
BC
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Feb 11, 2017 - 08:08pm PT
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Thanks for the story of the picture, there Ghost.
Reminds me of a Michener book I read a long time ago.. involved the same circuit yet was set in the Gold Rush days and took them a couple years of over wintering.. maybe your pals were inspired by the same book?
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Brent Mattix
Trad climber
Roseville, CA
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Feb 11, 2017 - 08:22pm PT
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perswig
climber
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Feb 12, 2017 - 05:41pm PT
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Dale
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2017 - 06:18pm PT
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 12, 2017 - 09:10pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2017 - 07:15pm PT
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Hmmm...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2017 - 07:17pm PT
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 14, 2017 - 07:25pm PT
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